What does a loop do in a program?
AnswerRepeats instructions
Loops run code multiple times.
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The basics
What does a variable do?
AnswerStores a value
Variables hold data a program uses.
Going deeper
Who wrote what is often called the first published computer algorithm?
AnswerAda Lovelace
Her notes on the Analytical Engine include it.
The Python language is named after what?
AnswerMonty Python
Guido van Rossum was a Monty Python fan.
Grace Hopper's team famously taped what into a logbook as the "first actual case of bug being found"?
AnswerA moth
The moth was found in the Harvard Mark II in 1947.
Expert level
Who created JavaScript in 1995?
AnswerBrendan Eich
Eich built it at Netscape in about ten days.
Which early high-level language did John Backus's IBM team release in 1957?
AnswerFORTRAN
FORTRAN targeted scientific computing.
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